Michino Yokoyama

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shingo Katsurayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Cast: Reiko Dan

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yū Fujiki

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

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Cast: Kimiko Yoshimiya

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yū Fujiki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Misa Shimizu

A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kayoko Shiraishi

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naomi Oki

A woman is being sexually assaulted by a pair of thugs, when out of the fog appear the High Heeled Cats – a trio of avenging angels, masked and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Misuzu Saiki

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isamu Nagato

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

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Cast: Yoshie Mizutani

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shigeru Kōyama

Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hijiri Kojima

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Three girls go on a trip after a friend commits suicide and learn about friendship.

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Cast: Eri Fukatsu

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Ensemble comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamori

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Miwako Fujitani

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Uehara

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Keiichi, a man on the run after being implicated in a detective’s death, struggles to evade the police. As the investigation intensifies,...

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1963 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita